TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE OVERTHROW OF AUTOCRACY
AND THE EVE OF THE FALL OF COMMISSAROCRACY

The Provisional Revolutionary Committee
directs all military units of the Kronstadt Fortress and Naval Base and
Soviet departments and institutions to present exact information to the
Transport Department of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee by March
13th for wagon and automobile transport, having divided it into light
or dray, and suited or unsuited for carrying burdens.

V. BAIKOV, Director of the Transport Department of the Prov. Rev. Com.

SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS

for March 11th, 1921

The day passed calmly.

Thick fog interfered with firing.
About six P.M. Krasnaya Gorka opened occasional and resultless fire
on the town.

Our northern forts were subjected
to increased shelling by Sestroretsk and Lisy Nos.

The batteries of the adversary were
silenced by the fire of our guns. Observations were made by intelligence.

In Oranienbaum, a train carrying bread
was destroyed by our fire. The adversary's garrison was without
bread the entire day.

Yesterday, Kronstadt was subjected
to repeated raids by airplanes throwing bombs over the town.

At 4 P.M., the adversary's artillery
opened fire from batteries located on the Oranienbaum Shore and from
Krasnoflotskii. Our artillery answered energetically. Artillery
fire subsided around 8 P.M.

PETRICHENKO, President of the Prov. Rev. Com.
SOLOVIANOV, Head of the Defense of the Kronstadt Fortress

TO ALL COMRADE SEAMEN, SOLDIERS AND WORKERS WHO PARTICIPATED
IN THE REPULSE OF COMMUNIST ATTACKS

FROM MARCH 8th THROUGH 12th

Dear comrades! Fate itself has
layed on you the great mission of liberating dear Soviet Russia from
the Communist yoke. To you dear comrades, defenders of Kronstadt,
the citadel of the Soviets, has fallen the most important and responsible
lot of selfless struggle. Behind your valiant chests, as behind
a rock wall, your mothers, wives and children calmly await victory.

They have entrusted their lives to
you, and look on you with pride and faith as the saviors of laboring
Russia, and the defenders of a great truth. Prove to the entire
[sic] world of laborers, dear warriors, that however difficult may the
great struggle for freely elected Soviets become, Kronstadt has always
stood, and stands now, a vigilant watch on guard of the laborers' interests.

THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

STAGES OF REVOLUTION

It is already four years since the
three-hundred year yoke of autocracy fell. The repressed people
who had been guarded by the gendarmes and police of Nikolai threw down
the rotting throne of the tsar. All rich and poor Russia rejoiced
in freedom. Capitalists and landowners were satisfied because
they could finally put more in their own pockets, stealing labor as
before from the worker and peasant, without sharing with the tsar and
his champions. They hoped to seat themselves firmly on the toilers'
neck, having duped the latter in the Constituent Assembly to which Kerensky
was slowly but surely leading.

The bourgeoisie was certain that it
would be be able to continue fleecing the peasant and worker.
The unexperienced peasants and workers were also pulled toward the Uchredilka,
not knowing what it would promise the toiler. The slogan of the
Constituent Assembly ruled over all Russia.

Temporarily. But the peasant
continued to be in the same fix that he had always been, waiting for
when the Uchredilka would decide the question of land.
The worker was universally exploited. As before he didn't have
the right to the produce of his own labor.

The toilers of Russia finally understood
that they were not escaping the cabal of the landowner and capitalist,
and that this cabal was preparing them a new serfdom, bourgeois power.

Patience broke, and in October of
1917 the bourgeoisie was thrown aside by a comradely blow by the seamen,
army, workers and peasants. It seemed that the laboring people
had entered into their rights.

But the Communist party, filled with
self-seekers and having become seperated from the peasants and workers
in whose name it acted, seized power into its own hands. It decided
to govern the country with the aid of its commissars, by the example
of landowner Russia.

For 3 years the toilers of Soviet
Russia groaned in the torture chambers of the Cheka. Everywhere,
the Communist ruled over the worker and peasant. A new Communist
serfdom arose. The peasant became a hired hand on Soviet farms,
and the worker a hireling at a bureaucratic factory. The laboring
intelligentsia came to nothing. Those who tried to protest were
dragged off to the Cheka. They wasted no time with those
who continued to agitate... they put them against the wall.

It became stifling. Soviet Russia
had turned into all-Russian katorga. Worker unrest and
peasant uprising testified that patience had come to an end. A
toilers' uprising approached. The time to throw down the commissarocracy
arrived.

Kronstadt, vigilant guard of the Social
Revolution, has not overslept. It was in the first ranks of February
and October. It first raised the flag of rebellion for the Third
Revolution of Laborers.

Autocracy fell. The Uchredilka
has passed into the land of legend.

Commissarocracy too will collapse.
The time has come for true power of laborers, for Soviet power.

You fell
as sacrifices to the great struggle. Your unforgettable
names shall not die in the noble memory of the laboring people,
for whose fortune you laid down your wild heads. In the
battle's roar you did not think of yourselves. Warriors
for an idea, you did not tremble before the pack of tyrants. You, the
first sacrifices of the Third Revolution, of the Revolution of Labor,
gave an example of steadfast firmness in battle for your rights. You went
forward under the slogan Victory or Death. You died. We who
are alive shall carry the battle to its end. We vow
on your fresh graves to be victorious or to lie next to you. Already,
the light of the Great Liberation of Laborers has begun to shine.

KRONSTADT AND SMOLNY

We hide nothing, and hide from no
one.

Everything we do, we do openly because
our cause is rightful. It is to realize the common desire of the
laboring people, to realize true Soviet power. No one can stop
us from doing this.

And truly, in any case, bands of chekists
and other murderers won't stop us. Heroism, the garrison's morale
and the populace's calm certainty can serve to guarantee this.

And what is being done at the same
time in the camp of the adversary? Interesting newspapers from
March 9th which we recently received serve as the best answer.
We have hung these newspapers in the windows of Sovtsentropechat
so that citizens can personally convince themselves of the unbounded,
blatant lies with which the newspapers, by orders from Smolny, try to
hide the truth the truth from the workers and soldiers.

Krasnaia Gazeta has come to
the point that they are claiming that, "cadets broke into the town.
Vershinin, a member of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee, was
captured in the streets..."

Pathetic lackeys of the Communists,
whom do you want to deceive?

Comrade Vershinin has been captured,
this is true. But do you want to know, citizens, under what circumstances
Comrade Vershinin was taken?

Allow me. On March 8th a group
of the opponent's troops, with a white flag in front, set out toward
our patrols. Trusting in the flag, presuming that a delegation
was coming to us for negotiations, Comrade Vershinin threw a revolver
from himself and went out unarmed to meet the truce envoys.

But what does one more Judas kiss
mean to traitors? They captured the unarmed truce envoy and carried
him away with them...

That, citizens, is the entire truth
for you! The lackeys from Krasnaia Gazeta did not even
succeed in agreeing with the lackeys from Pravda. At the
same time when the first was reporting that two thousand 'gold epaulets'
[tsarist officers] had snuck into Kronstadt, Pravda says they
were only "hundreds of White Guard Russian officers."

The newspapers are before you citizens.
Read and learn how the Communists deceive the people.

We hide nothing. Their lies
are our best agitator.

CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF MARCH 11TH

Delegates gathered at five o'clock
in the Hall of Assemblies. Before the beginning of the session,
Comrade Petrichenko distributed the Bolshevist Pravda and Krasnaia
to the delegates. It was easily felt that Revolutionary
Kronstadt does not fear the lying Communist press. The session
opened at 4:55 under the roar of the bombardment of our glorious floating
fortresses. The Conference stands to honor the memory of the fallen
red eagles of Kronstadt.

The produce question was discussed
first. The report of the Prov. Rev. Com. was heard with deep attention.
As was clarified after a short debate, Kronstadt's produce situation
is completely fine. The Conference decided to consider the actions
of the Rev. Com. to be correct, and proper for the current situation.

Current affairs were discussed next.

A report on the requisitioning of
boots from the arrested Communists for soldiers' use was met with thunderous
applause and calls of, "Right! Take their winter coats!!!"

It was decided to celebrate the fall
of autocracy at the same time as the overthrow of commissarocracy, since
there is no time now to take away from military action. A representative
of the workers of the sewing workshop of the Soviet of the People's
Economy reported on the preparation of 3000 sets of underwear, which
it was decided to use for those at the front line.

Comrade Kilgast requested that the
delegates spread the request for comrades to donate shoes for the soldiers.

The question was raised of liberating
Communists on bail. After a debate, in which Comrade Petrichenko
noted the worth of a Bolshevik's word and that in general those arrested
are only the most unrestful, it was decided to leave the Communists
under arrest so long as events have not been wrapped up and military
actions not come to an end. (Ilyin, Galapov, Guriev and others
who were left at liberty continued to carry on agitation and to gather
secretly. Ilyin had the gall to phone Krasnaya Gorka and give
it information on how things stood in Kronstadt.)

It was decreed that further arrests
could be carried out by the Rev. Com. only upon an inquiry into the
question by the revtroikas.

One of the comrades related a fact
which showed that there are also honest Communists, who are fulfilling
military assignments selflessly and in an exemplary way.

At the end of the session, Comrade
Petrichenko proposed that the Conference thank the defenders of the
approaches to Kronstadt. This was met with long, unceasing, stormy
applause.

"OUR GENERALS"

The Communists are spreading rumors
that there are White Guard generals, officers and priests included in
the composition of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee. In
order to stop this once and for all, we bring to their attention that
the Committee consists of the following fifteen members:

--Pravda reports that, "in
connection with the situation which has been created, the Celebration
of the Women's Proletariat in Petrograd is temporarily postponed."

What kind of honest working woman
would go to this celebration when stranglers of freedom and chekists
are in power?

How could anyone think of holidays?

GENERAL MEETING OF DESERTERS IN THE 4TH NORTHERN BARRACKS

The General Meeting of soldiers who
have crossed over to us, having first elected a revtroika consisting
of Comrades Azarenko, Kuznetsov and Davydenko, passed the following
resolution: "We, deserters, of a newly formed battalion, express
ourcomplete faith in the battalion commander,
Comrade Gribov. We are ready, at the first call of the Rev. Com.
of the Town of Kronstadt, to go to the next life defending the repressed.

seaman TROFIMOV, President of the Meeting
KUZNETSOV, Secretary

SOVIETS, AND NOT A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, ARE THE LABORER'S
STRONGHOLD

YOUNG HERO

The 14 year old lad Podriadchikov
has thrust himself into one of the reconnaissance detachments.
However they tried to convince him to give it up, he persisted.

"You have to give me a rifle,
and that's it!"

They were forced to give in.

At night the detachment set out on
reconnaissance. Podriadchikov did not lag behind the other comrades.

In the dark, they stumbled on an outpost
of the adversary, and a crossfire began. A stray bullet hit Podriadchikov
in the leg at the very moment when the outpost gave up and retreated.

"Cut the leg off or bind it up, but
I won't lag behind," cried the young hero. They quickly made a
dressing, and Podriadchikov walked on. He is now lying in the
hospital, and cannot wait to heal from his wound so that he can once
more dash forward.

Last year, the Communists executed
his father in a village.

LEAVING THE PARTY

All those leaving the ranks of the
R.C.P. are directed to turn in their party booklets and identifications
to their electoral troikas. Those leaving the party in
the future and giving declarations are directed to do so right now.

Declarations of departure from the
R.C.P. arrive unceasingly at the editorial offices, but in view of their
great quantity and the insufficiency of space, the editors are unable
to publish them immediately, and will include them as possible in following
editions of the newspaper.

Working in Kronstadt for three years
as a teacher at the Labor School, and also being active in the army
and naval units, I have moved ahead honestly, leg to leg with the laborers
of free Kronstadt. I have given them all my strengths in the field
of people's education. The broad sweep of the wave of enlightenment
which the Communists began, Soviet construction and the laborer's class
struggle with the exploiters all drew me into the Communist party, of
which I have been a member since February 1st, 1921. During the
time that I have been in the party, a great number of fundamental failings
in the party "heights" have been opened before me, spattering the beautiful
idea of Communism with muck. Among these, bureaucratism, separation
from the masses, dictatorship and the large number of so called "hangers
on", careerist and the like have acted to repel the masses. All
these things have given birth to a deep chasm between the masses and
the party. They have turned it into an organization which is powerless
in the struggle against the country's internal ruin.

The present moment has opened people's
eyes to the most terrible facts. When the many thousand person
populace of Kronstadt proposed a number of fair demands to the "defenders
of the laborer's interests," the bureaucratized heights of the R.C.P.
rejected them. Instead of dealing freely with the laborers of
the town of Kronstadt, they opened fratricidal fire on the workers,
sailors and soldiers of the revolutionary town. As if that wasn't
enough, they throw bombs from airplanes on the defenseless women and
children of Kronstadt. This has pleated even more thorns in the
Communist Party's crown.

I do not want to be a supporter of
the comrade Communists' barbarous excesses, and I also don't believe
in the tactics of the party "heights," which have called for the spilling
of blood and for great distress among the people's masses. Therefore,
I openly declare before the Provisional Revolutionary Committee that
since the moment of the first shot at Kronstadt I no longer consider
myself a candidate member of the R.C.P., and give my entire support
to the slogan taken by the laborers of Kronstadt, "All Power to Soviets,
and not Parties!"

T. DENISOV, teacher in the 2nd Labor School

I ask that you no longer consider
me a member of the R.C.P.. Seeing the tactics of the butcher Trotsky,
I consider it a disgrace to be in its ranks. I have been and will
be with the people, and will die the death of the honorable with them.

N. ALEKSANDROV, artisan of the Steamship Factory

We have watched the course of unfolding
events in order to find out the truth behind all the loud words which
authority, in the person of Trotsky and the rest from the camp of the
evil kestrels, spoke and suggested to us, preaching the ideas of the
R.C.P. With their first shot at the workers and peasants, in the
person of the Kronstadt proletariat which has arisen to fight for a
rightful cause, we understood that it was time for us to throw the shroud
from our eyes, put there by those who call themselves warriors for the
people's liberation. We decided that it was time to say for all
to hear, "betrayers of the people, spillers of innocent blood, hands
off power, and eternal damnation to you."

We ask that from the present moment
you no longer consider us to be members of the R.C.P. We ask that
you accept us into your midst as honest toilers who are prepared to
stand at any time in defense of the Provisonal Revolutionary Committee
of the Town of Kronstadt, and even, if it should be necessary, to lay
down our lives for the workers and peasants, and for the power of free
Soviets.

I. GUROV, A. YAKUSHIN, seamen of the Predbaza [sic]

The Communist party has lost the faith
of the laboring masses, and its power has passed without any violence
or blood into the hands of the revolutionary laboring masses of Kronstadt.
None the less, the Central Authorities are blockading Kronstadt and
sending out provocative broadcasts and proclamations, trying to anchor
its power with hunger, cold, treachery and force. Considering
such a policy a betrayal of the fundamental slogan of the Socialist
Revolution, "All Power to the Laborers," I think that the Communists
have put themselves in the ranks of the enemies of all labor.
There is only one exit, to stay at your post to the end, and battle
mercilessly with all who try to tie the laboring masses to their authority
with force, treachery and provocation. We break all connection
with the party.

MILORADOVICH, BEZSONOV AND MARKOV, former members of the R.C.P.
fort TOTLEBEN (MORSKOI)

Because of the slogan held by the
R.C.P., "All power to the Soviets," and because of the one-sided party
agitation, and also not wishing to just remain a witness to the building
of Soviet power, I entered the R.C.P. in June of 1920. However,
I have been convinced that the party does not express the will of the
broad layers of the populace, the workers and peasants. This is
in part supported by letters received from the provinces about the difficulties
and oppression which the party directs at the village peasantry in the
localities. Because of this, I ask that you no longer consider
me a member of the R.C.P., and I give my support to the resolution passed
at the meeting on March 1st. I place myself entirely under the
authority of the actions and decisions of the Provisional Revolutionary
Committee of the Town of Kronstadt.

P. BARANOV, Head of the Watch of the Kronstadt Port

Having discussed the current situation,
we, Communists of the collective of the Communications Service of the
Naval Fortress of Kronstadt, have arrived at the unanimous conclusion
that the Communist Party, having torn away from the broad masses, has
set out on the path of bureaucratism and repression against the laborers'
freedom. In three years in power, the party has brought the country
to the wild raging of the Cheka, which has widely carried out
executions and used all means to strangle and mock the laborers, and
covered itself with their name. The Republic writhes in agony,
brought to beggary by the policies of the bloodthirsty and power-blinded
leaders. We greet the Provisional Revolutionary Committee, which
is courageously raising rebellion against the party dictatorship and
oligarchy. We give our support to the slogan, "Power to Soviets
of Laborers, and not to Parties."

Down with the party dictatorship!

Long live the true power of laborers!

We the undersigned to this resolution
declare our departure from the Communist Party, and ask that you accept
us into the midst of the non-party comrades, to carry out joint work
for the good of the Republic.

I, a telephonist of the central station
of fort Shants, being by nature a person of weak character, was
not strong enough to stand against the force of the bloody Communists
who recruited me into their party during party
week.

Having made myself, or, more
truthfully, when the Communists had made me a blind weapon in their
hands, my beliefs about their actions had not changed. In my soul
I realized that the bureaucrat Communists would never achieve the prosperity
of the laboring masses by way of violence, base deceipt, spilling blood,
and the other acts of our authority.

But fear! Only fear for my own
life did not let me denounce my party colleagues, bloody Communists.

And I was silent, staying on the edges.

But then arose the hour of repayment.
Communist power, until then seemingly undefeatable, was overturned.
The rabble of criminals, in the person of the Communists, was arrested.
The laboring people breathed free, having thrown down the heavy burden...

And I? I am a Communist.
The bloody document, the party booklet which remained with me, and which
has now been turned in to the Revtroika of fort Shants,
says so.

Comrades, forgive me for my unwilling
stay in the R.C.P., and I will try to justify your faith. I recognize
the Prov. Rev. Com., and cry together with you, "Hoorah!"

N. ROMANOV, telephonist of fort Shants

Finding the methods to which Lord
Trotsky has resorted extremely horrifying, staining the party with the
blood of its own brother workers, I consider it a moral obligation to
leave the party. I ask that this be announced in the press.

V. GRABEZHEV, President of the Union of Construction Workers,
candidate member of the party

Declarations have also arrived at
the editorial offices from the following:

Today canned foods are issued to all,
counted against the bread norm for March 15th:

Letter A -

for bread coupon

No
20

"
B -

" " "

No
24

Series B -

" " "

No
8

"
C -

" " "

No
2

"
A -

for prod. coupon

No
9

3/4 lb. of salted beef is issued from
the meat stores, counted against the bread norm for March 14th.

Letter A -

for bread coupon

No
8

"
B -

" " "

No
8

Series B -

" " "

No
9

"
C -

" " "

No
8

1 lb. of bread is issued by letter
A for March 12th and 13th, for bread coupon No
21. 3 lbs. of oats are issued by letter B for bread coupon No
23. 1 lb. of dried bread by series B for bread coupon No
10. 1 1/2 pound of barley by series A for produce coupon No
10. 1 1/2 pound of barley by series C for bread coupon No
23, counted against the bread norm for March 12th, 13th and 14th.

Adult cafeterias are provisionally
open from 10 A.M. until 6 P.M.

LEVAKOV, for the President of the Administration of Gorprodkom
KAPUSTIN, Manager

NOTICES

On the basis of a telephonogram from
the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of March 11th, in view of the
military standing of the town, the March 12th holiday is moved to an
unspecified date, and it is therefore instructed to consider SATURDAY
a normal (working) day.

MATVEEV, Provisional and Acting Director of the Department of Labor
A. FEDOROV, member of the Central Troika

The Union of Printers brings to the attention
of members of the union that issue of buttons, cigarette papers and "Baker"
brand powder ends March 15th.